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...That's no surprise, according to a study published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association. According to the report, St. John's Wort, long hailed as the "natural Prozac," doesn't do a whole lot for people with moderate to serious depression...
...study, sponsored by Pfizer (maker of both the antidepressant heavyweight Zoloft and herbal supplements) and the National Institutes of Mental Health, included 200 patents who took either St. John's Wort or a placebo pill for eight weeks each. The patients who took the herb showed very little or no improvement in their depression - the same results as the patients taking the placebo...
...Paul Doering, distinguished service professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Florida in Gainesville, spoke with TIME.com Wednesday about the study and the future of St. John's Wort...
...results of this study run totally counter to what we've heard out of Europe concerning St. John's Wort. Is there an easy explanation for that discrepancy...
...Eisenberg stressed the need for traditional medical doctors to be willing to talk with patients about the herbal or botanical substances they are taking. He cited, for example, evidence that the popular herbal supplement St. John's Wort seriously impaired the ability of Indinavir, an anti-viral drug used to treat AIDS, to function in the blood stream...